COM­ING SOON TO SIDRA

A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND HIGH-THROUGH­PUT GE­NOMICS CEN­TRE TO UN­DER­TAKE POP­U­LA­TION STUD­IES AND GE­NETIC SE­QUENC­ING FOR THE MENA RE­GION. THE FA­CIL­ITY WILL PRO­VIDE QATAR AND THE RE­GION AC­CESS TO THE LAT­EST TECH­NOL­OGY TO HELP AD­VANCE GE­NETIC MAP­PING PROJECTS, WORK­ING ON THE CRE­ATION OF THE ARAB CON­SEN­SUS GENOME AND AL­LOW­ING FOR A DEEPER UN­DER­STAND­ING OF GE­NETIC VARI­ANTS THAT CON­TRIB­UTE TO THE HEALTH OF THE ARAB POP­U­LA­TION. AN UL­TRA­MOD­ERN LAB­O­RA­TORY FOR DI­AG­NO­SIS AND DIS­COV­ER­IES, CA­PA­BLE OF IDEN­TI­FY­ING AL­READY KNOWN AND NEW GE­NETIC DIS­EASES, AND OF­FER­ING THE PA­TIENT THE BEST PER­SON­AL­IZED THER­APY. A GMP FA­CIL­ITY THAT IS A SPE­CIAL LAB­O­RA­TORY TO SAFELY HAN­DLE PA­TIENTS' CELLS FOR THER­A­PEU­TIC PUR­POSES (GENE COR­REC­TION OR TIS­SUE RE­GEN­ER­A­TION). A CLIN­I­CAL TRIAL OF­FICE TO CO­OR­DI­NATE FU­TURE CLIN­I­CAL TRI­ALS RE­SULT­ING FROM RE­SEARCH DIS­COV­ER­IES.